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Audiology Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who provided first services after WWII | SLPs |
| Who is the Father of Audiology | Raymond Carhart |
| What are you legally required to hold as an audiologist | licensure |
| How many Americans suffer from a hearing loss | 28 million |
| What type of audiologist works in a medical environment and focuses on diagnostic assessments? | Medical Audiologist |
| What type of audiologist works with children and their families? | Pediatric Audiologist |
| What type of audiologist works in schools to provide services to kids | Educational Audiologist |
| What type of audiologist works in the selection of hearing aids and training in compensatory communication? | Dispensing/Rehabilitative Audiologist |
| What type of audiologist would measure high noise areas & design hearing conservation programs | Industrial Audiologist |
| What does ASHA stand for? | American Speech-Language Hearing Association |
| What structure converts sound into mechanical energy? | Tympanic Membrane |
| What structures generate OAEs? | Outer Hair Cells |
| What structures amplify mechanical input? | Ossicles |
| What structure changes mechanical energy to electrical energy | Cochlea |
| What structure transmits electric signals to the brain? | Auditory Nerve |
| In what pathway of sound does sound travel through the outer ear, middle ear, and then to cochlea? | Air Conduction Pathway |
| In what pathway does sound travel through the inner ear only and then to the cochlea? | Bone Conduction Pathway |
| What type of HL is a malfunction in the outer or middle ear? | CHL |
| What type of HL is a malfunction in the inner ear? | SNHL |
| What type of HL includes both a CHL & SNHL occurring simultaneously? | Mixed HL |
| Molecules being shoved together is referred to as a... | compression |
| Molecules being pulled apart is a... | rarefaction |
| What refers to a series of compressions and rarefactions? | Vibration |
| What type of wave is a sound wave? | Longitudinal sine wave |
| What measures cycles per second? | Frequency |
| The naturalrate of vibration of a mass, or when a mass is most easily set into vibration (greatest frequency) is what? | Resonant Frequency |
| What is the measurement of any point on the pressure wave to the same point on the next wave? | Wavelength |
| Intensity refers to the.... | Loudness |
| What Law States, "as the distance from the sound source doubles, the intensity of a sound decreases by 6 dB | Inverse Square Law |
| What is the numerical measure of Intensity? | dB |
| What type of BC takes place when molecules of the skull and structures of hearing in the cochlea are displaced? | Distortional Bone Conduction |
| What type of BC takes place from swinging ossicles are causing vibrations in the skull? | Inertial Bone Conduction |
| What type of BC occurs when vibrations are not let out of the ear? | Osseotympanic Bone Conduction |
| What increases the intensity of sound delivered into the ear when the ear canal is covered? | Occlusion Effect |
| Are both ears uncovered or covered during BC tests in prevention of the Occlusion Effect? | Uncovered |
| AC poor, BC normal, and ABG | CHL |
| AC poor, BC poor, and ABG | Mixed HL |
| AC and BC thresholds are dropping within 10 dB of eachother | SNHL |
| Type of Masking that contains all frequencies used during speech testing | White Noise |
| Type of Masking that is a narrow band of noise surrounding the frequency being tested | Narrowband Noise |
| What term refers to testing one ear at a time | monaurally |
| What term refers to testing both ears simultaneously | binaurally |
| What are the stimuli for SRT testing? | spondees |
| What frequency do u set speech testing at? | NONE |
| What are the stimuli for WR testing | Phonetically Balanced 1 syllable words |
| What is the difference between the signal and the noise (Sig-noise=?) | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| Tympanic Membrane vibrates most efficiently when the pressure on both sides is... | Equal |
| ABRs estimate the threshold at what wave? | FIVE |
| What structure is responsible for auditory alertness, reflexes, and habituation? | Reticular Formation |
| Decussations are important for what? | Intrinsic Redundancy |
| Do cochlear implants restore normal hearing? | No |
| What is the limitation to screening infants with OAE's | conductive pathology |
| What is the scala media filed with? | endolymph |
| What is the rapid jerking of the eye? | nystagmus |
| What is the critical period for language learning? | Birth to age 3 |
| In the pars flaccida, what layer is missing? | middle |
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